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TIL out of Qatar's population of 2.6 million, only the 12% have qatari citizenship. 88% of their total population consists of expats, migrant laborers, mainly from South Asia

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xrL0 TIL the original floats in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade were released into the air after the parade because Macy’s didn’t know what to do with them. However they included a ticket that would fall to the ground after they popped. If you found the ticket, you could redeem it for a prize at Macy’s.
K9aE TIL in 1943 the Nazis made a propoganda film about the Titanic showing the British as cowards and the Germans as brave. The hero is a German officer who saves third-class passengers and the villan is a British owner of the ship who recklessly crashes the boat while trying to break a speed record.
QNNNk TIL about Yola, a.k.a the "Forth and Bargy dialect", an extinct Anglic language spoken in southern County Wexford until the 1990s.
rRkPM TIL One of the reasons satellite phones never became the 'norm' despite having almost universal network coverage is time delay. These phones communicate through geostationary satellites that are 30,000+ km above Earth, which causes a time lag while talking to someone on the phone.
l7JgA TIL SGT. Robert Hughes was known as the "Gentle Giant" while serving as a Force Recon Marine during Vietnam. Hughes had at least 2 confirmed underwater kills utilizing the KABAR knife and ripping out an enemy diver's throat after spitting out his regulator.